Medium processing apparatus and bill processing apparatus

ABSTRACT

The sort result of sorting into the denominations of bills fitted to storage and the denominations of bills not fitted to storage for each of cartridges  11   a  to  11   d  placed in a main unit of an apparatus are displayed on a display section  4.  When the denomination of bills to be stored for each of the cartridges  11   a  to  11   d  is entered in an input section  3,  a control section  2  the sets denomination of bills to be stored for each of the cartridges based on the entry. Thus, the denomination of bills to be stored for each of the cartridges  11   a  to  11   d  can be set by the easy operation of entering the denomination of bills to be stored for each of the cartridges  11   a  to  11   d  in the input section  3.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention

[0002] This invention relates to a medium processing apparatus forsorting and storing media entered in a main unit of an apparatus by typeand a bill processing apparatus incorporating the medium processingapparatus.

[0003] 2. Description of the Related Art

[0004] Hitherto, a bill processing apparatus, which checks a pluralityof bills entered in a main unit of an apparatus through an input slotfor type (denomination) for each bill and stores the bills in acartridge placed in the main unit of apparatus, has been available. Assuch a bill processing apparatus, for example, an automatic tellingmachine (ATM), an exchange machine, etc., used in financial institutionssuch as banks is known.

[0005] By the way, the bill processing apparatus in the related artcomprises one cartridge placed in the main unit of apparatus, whereinentered bills are stored in the cartridge regardless of thedenomination. Therefore, bills different in denomination are mixed inthe cartridge and thus work of sorting bills taken out from thecartridge by denomination must be performed and the sort work takes timeand labor; this is a problem.

[0006] An apparatus wherein bills entered in a main unit of anapparatus, namely, paid-in bills can be used as bills to be paid out isdemanded from the viewpoint of storing cash in the main unit ofapparatus as little as possible from the reason of crime prevention.

[0007] Then, as an apparatus for solving the problem, an apparatuscomprising a plurality of cartridges in a main unit for sorting andstoring entered bills by denomination is proposed. The apparatus has theadvantage that the main unit of apparatus can be miniaturized by usingthe cartridges storing the bills to be paid out without providing a newcartridge for storing entered bills for each denomination.

[0008] However, the bill processing apparatus in the related art has aconfiguration wherein setting of the denomination of bills stored ineach cartridge cannot easily be changed, and thus when the operatingenvironment of the main unit of apparatus changes, for example, when thetype of bill to be handled changes, work of changing the denomination ofbills stored in each cartridge takes time and labor; this is a problem.

[0009] To use paid-in bills also as bills to be paid out, unless thebills in the cartridge are neatly stacked on each other, the occurrenceprobability of a jam when bills are paid out from the cartridge becomeshigh and the reliability of the main unit of apparatus is degraded.Therefore, each cartridge must be formed to the size matching thedenomination of bills stored in the cartridge. Thus, when thedenomination of bills stored in the cartridge is changed, the cartridgemust also be replaced with a cartridge of the size matching a newdenomination, changing the denomination of bills stored in the cartridgeis very cumbersome, and the costs taken for the changing (purchase costof the new cartridge, etc.,) are high; this is a problem. Particularly,oversea bills such as dollar bills vary largely in size betweendenominations as compared with yen bills circulated in Japan.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0010] It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a mediumprocessing apparatus wherein the type of media to be stored in each ofcartridges placed in a main unit of an apparatus can be changed easilyand a bill processing apparatus incorporating the medium processingapparatus.

[0011] It is another object of the invention to provide a mediumprocessing apparatus wherein costs of changing the type of media to bestored in each of cartridges placed in a main unit of an apparatus arereduced and a bill processing apparatus incorporating the mediumprocessing apparatus.

[0012] To solve the problems, the medium processing apparatus of theinvention comprises:

[0013] (1)

[0014] a plurality of cartridges for storing media;

[0015] a storage section for storing size determination information todetermine the size of a medium fitted to storage in each of thecartridges and medium size information indicating the size of the mediumfor each type of medium;

[0016] an output section for outputting the sort result of sorting intoa medium of the type fitted to storage and a medium of the type notfitted to storage using the size determination information and themedium size information for each of the cartridges;

[0017] an input section for entering the type of medium to be stored foreach of the cartridges; and

[0018] a control section for setting the type of medium to be stored foreach of the cartridges based on the entry in the input section.

[0019] In this configuration, the output section outputs the sort resultof sorting into a medium of the type fitted to storage and a medium ofthe type not fitted to storage for each of the cartridges placed in themain unit of apparatus. When the type of media to be stored for each ofthe cartridges is entered in the input section, the control section setsthe type of media to be stored for each of the cartridges based on theentry.

[0020] Therefore, the type of media to be stored for each of thecartridges is simply entered in the input section, whereby the type ofmedia to be stored in each of the cartridges can be set and can also bechanged easily.

[0021] Since the sort result of sorting into a medium of the type fittedto storage and a medium of the type not fitted to storage for each ofthe cartridges is output, the output can be used to easily select mediaof the type fitted to storage for each of the cartridges.

[0022] (2) The output section has a display section for displaying thesort result.

[0023] In this configuration, the sort result is displayed on the outputsection.

[0024] (3) The input section is a touch panel placed on a display screenof the display section.

[0025] In this configuration, the type of media to be stored in each ofthe cartridges can be entered on the touch panel placed on the displayscreen of the display section for displaying the sort result. Therefore,the type of media to be stored in each of the cartridges can be enteredwhile the screen displaying the sort result is seen.

[0026] (4) When a medium of the type not fitted to storage for any ofthe cartridges is entered in the input section, the control section hasa function of invalidating the entry.

[0027] In this configuration, when the entered medium type is the typenot fitted to storage for any of the cartridges, the entry isinvalidated. Thus, the medium of the type not fitted to storage for eachof the cartridges is not set as the medium to be stored in thecorresponding cartridge.

[0028] (5) The cartridge comprises guides for regulating the storagearea of media so that the guides can be moved whenever necessary, and

[0029]  the size determination information contains informationindicating the positions of the guides in the cartridge.

[0030] In this configuration, if the positions of the guides placed inthe cartridge are changed, the storage area of media is changed and thusthe type of media fitted to storage in the cartridge can be changed.Therefore, unlike the apparatus in the related art, the type of mediafitted to storage can be changed simply by changing the positions of theguides without replacing the cartridge itself. Thus, a new cartridgeneed not be purchased and the cost taken for the change work is reduced.

[0031] (6) The input section has a function of entering the informationindicating the positions of the guides.

[0032] In this configuration, the positions of the guides in each of thecartridges are entered from the input section as a part of the sizedetermination information.

[0033] (7) The medium processing apparatus further comprises a guideposition detection section for detecting the positions of the guides.

[0034] In this configuration, the guide position detection sectiondetects the positions of the guides of each of the cartridges, so thatthe labor of entering the positions of the guides in each of thecartridges as a part of the size determination information can be savedand occurrence of an entry mistake can be prevented.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0035]FIG. 1 is a block diagram to show the configuration of a billprocessing apparatus of an embodiment of the invention;

[0036]FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing to show placement of a mechanicalsection of the bill processing apparatus of the embodiment of theinvention;

[0037]FIGS. 3A and 3B are drawings to show the configuration of acartridge applied to the bill processing apparatus of the embodiment ofthe invention;

[0038]FIGS. 4A and 4B are drawings to show the configuration of thecartridge applied to the bill processing apparatus of the embodiment ofthe invention;

[0039]FIG. 5 is a drawing to describe the paying-in operation in thebill processing apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;

[0040]FIG. 6 is a drawing to describe the storage operation in the billprocessing apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;

[0041]FIGS. 7A and 7B are drawings to show guide attachment positioninformation and guide-to-guide size information;

[0042]FIG. 8 is a flowchart to show denomination setting processing inthe bill processing apparatus of the embodiment of the invention;

[0043]FIG. 9 is a drawing to show a setting screen example on a displaysection in the bill processing apparatus of the embodiment of theinvention; and

[0044]FIG. 10 is a drawing to show the configuration of a cartridgeapplied to bill processing apparatus according to another embodiment ofthe invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0045]FIG. 1 is a block diagram to show the configuration of a billprocessing apparatus of an embodiment of the invention. The billprocessing apparatus 1 of the invention comprises a control section 2,an input section 3, a display section 4, a transport section 5, avalidation section 6, and an interface section 7 (I/F section 7). Thecontrol section 2 controls the operation of a main unit. The inputsection 3 performs input operation. The display section 4 displays theoperation state of the main unit and the like. The transport section 5transports bills entered in the main unit. The validation section 6checks a bill entered in-the main unit for type (denomination). Anexternal machine is connected to the interface section 7. The inputsection 3 has a touch panel placed on a display screen of the displaysection 4 to enable the user to enter a command, etc., in the main unitof apparatus on the display screen of the display section 4. Thevalidation section 6 detects the size, etc., of each bill entered in themain unit of apparatus and checks the bill for type (denomination). Aninput unit 10 having a display section 10 a can be connected to the I/Fsection 7, and the operator (user) can also enter a command, etc., inthe main unit of apparatus from the input unit 10.

[0046]FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing to show placement of a mechanicalsection of the bill processing apparatus of the embodiment. The billprocessing apparatus 1 of the embodiment comprises five cartridges 11(11 a, 11 b, 11 c, and 11 d) and 12. In the figure, the right fourcartridges 11 (11 a to 11 d) are the same except that the attachmentpositions of guides 21 described later are adjusted separately. Anentered bill whose denomination cannot be identified when it is storedis stored in the cartridge 12.

[0047] The cartridge 11 will be discussed. FIG. 3A is a front sectionalview of the cartridge 11 and FIG. 3B is a top view of the cartridge 11.The cartridge 11 is a box-like case opened on the top and stores billsbetween the guides 21 placed on both sides of the case inside. Eachguide 21 is fixed by a screw 22 at the bottom of the cartridge 11.Openings 23 shaped like long holes each for allowing the screw 22 forfixing the guide 21 to pass through are formed on both sides of thebottom of the cartridge 11, as shown in FIG. 4A. A plurality of pairs ofpositioning openings 24 for determining the attachment position of theguide 21 (in the figure, four pairs of A, B, C, and D) are made aboveand below each opening 23. The guide 21 has a screwing tap 21 a and apair of projections 21 b fitted into the positioning openings 24 on thebottom (see FIG. 4B).

[0048] As seen from the description given above, the guide 21 can beattached to any position of A, B, C, or D shown in FIG. 4A and theattachment position can also be changed easily. If the attachmentposition is changed, the distance between the guides 21 changes. On theother hand, bills are stored between the guides 21 placed in thecartridge 11 and thus the size of each bill fitted to storage in thecartridge 11, namely, the denomination of each bill fitted to storage inthe cartridge 11 is determined by the attachment positions of the guides21. In the figure, when the attachment positions of the guides 21 are A,the size of each bill fitted to storage is the largest (the widthbetween the guides 21 is the maximum); when the attachment positions areD, the size of each bill fitted to storage is the smallest (the widthbetween the guides 21 is the minimum).

[0049] Referring again to FIG. 2, a transport passage for transportingbills entered into an input slot 13 is formed and a validation section 6for determining the denomination of each bill transported on thetransport passage is placed above the cartridges 11 and 12. Thetransport passage is formed with branch paths for introducing bills intoa temporary hold section 14 and a returned bill hold section 15. Thetemporary hold section 14 temporarily holds each bill whose denominationis determined at the paying-in operation time. The returned bill holdsection 15 temporarily holds each bill whose denomination cannot bedetermined at the paying-in operation time. Further, the transportpassage is formed with branch paths for introducing bills into thecartridges 11 and 12 at the storage operation time.

[0050] The paying-in operation and the storage operation in thedescription are an operation sequence and the paying-in operation ofbills entered into the input slot is executed and then the storageoperation is executed. The paying-in operation and the storage operationwill be discussed later in detail.

[0051] Further, the bill processing apparatus 1 of the embodiment storesstored bill denomination information setting the denomination of billsstored for each of the cartridges 11 (11 a, 11 b, 11 c, and 11 d). Forexample, the correspondences among the denominations of bills to bestored and the cartridges are set as follows. Cartridge 11 a—1000-dollarbills, cartridge 11 b—500-dollar bills, cartridge 11 c—100-dollar bills,and cartridge 11 d—50-dollar bills. The stored bill denominationinformation is stored in RAM (not shown) provided in the control section2.

[0052] Next, the paying-in operation and the storage operation of thebill processing apparatus 1 of the embodiment will be discussed. FIG. 5is a drawing to show the bill transport passage in the paying-inoperation and FIG. 6 is a drawing to show the bill transport passage inthe storage operation. FIG. 5 does not show the transport passage notused at the paying-in operation time. FIG. 6 does not show the transportpassage not used at the storage operation time.

[0053] The bill processing apparatus 1 transports the bills entered intothe input slot 13 to the validation section 6 one by one. The validationsection 6 detects the size, etc., of each bill and determines thedenomination of the bill. The bill processing apparatus 1 switches thebill transport passage depending on whether or not the denomination canbe determined in the validation section 6 for storing the bill whosedenomination is determined in the validation section 6 in the temporaryhold section 14 and the bill whose denomination cannot be determined inthe returned bill hold section 15.

[0054] After the bill processing apparatus 1 stores all bills enteredinto the input slot 13 in the temporary hold section 14 or the returnedbill hold section 15, it transports the bills stored in the returnedbill hold section 15 to the input slot 13, thereby returning the billswhose denomination cannot be determined to the bill entering person (theuser of the apparatus). When the denominations of all bills entered intothe input slot 13 can be determined, no bills are stored in the returnedbill hold section 15 and no bills are returned to the user.

[0055] The paying-in operation is now complete. After this, atransaction is conducted based on the total amount of the bills storedin the temporary hold section 14. For example, paying-in processing,exchange processing, etc., is performed as the transaction. Since thebills stored in the temporary hold section 14 are bills whosedenomination is determined, the total amount of the bills stored in thetemporary hold section 14, namely, the bills entered into the main unitof apparatus (except returned bills) is calculated and the transactioncan be conducted based on the total amount.

[0056] Upon completion of the transaction, the bill processing apparatus1 starts the storage operation of storing the bills held in thetemporary hold section 14 in the cartridges 11, 12. The storageoperation will be discussed with reference to FIG. 6. In the storageoperation, the bills held in the temporary hold section 14 are paid outone by one and again transported to the validation section 6 fordetermining the denominations of the bills. At this time, the billprocessing apparatus 1 switches the bill transport passage for storingeach bill whose denomination cannot be determined in the validationsection 6 in the cartridge 12 and storing each bill whose denominationis determined in the corresponding one of the cartridges 11 (11 a to 11d) in response to the determined denomination. The denomination of billsto be stored is set for each cartridge 11 as described above. Forexample, if the correspondences thereamong are set as cartridge 11a—1000-dollar bills, cartridge 11 b—500-dollar bills, cartridge 11c—100-dollar bills, and cartridge 11 d—50-dollar bills, the billdetermined a 1000-dollar bill in the validation section 6 is stored inthe cartridge 11 a. When all bills held in the temporary hold section 14are stored in the cartridges 11, 12, the storage operation is nowcomplete.

[0057] The bill processing apparatus 1 of the embodiment thus sorts andstores the bills entered into the input slot 13 in the cartridges 11 (11a to 11 d) by denomination. Therefore, the official in charge need notcarry out sort work of the bills taken out from the cartridges 11 (11 ato 11 d). The bill whose denomination cannot be determined in thevalidation section 6 is stored in the cartridge 12 as described above.

[0058] Next, processing of setting the denominations of bills stored inthe cartridges 11 (11 a to 11 d) will be discussed. The bill processingapparatus 1 of the embodiment stores guide attachment positioninformation indicating the attachment positions of the guides 21 foreach of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d (see FIG. 7A) and also storesguide-to-guide size information indicating the distance between theguides 21 corresponding to the attachment positions of the guides 21(see FIG. 7B) in RAM provided in the control section 2. The guideattachment position information and the guide-to-guide size informationcorrespond to size determination information mentioned in the invention.

[0059] When the official in charge changes the attachment positions ofthe guides 21 of any cartridge 11 (11 a to 11 d), he or she also changesthe guide attachment position information stored in the main unit ofapparatus. The official in charge can change the guide attachmentposition information by performing entry operation in the input section3. The official in charge changes the attachment positions of the guides21 for any of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d normally when he or shechanges the denomination of bills to be stored in the correspondingcartridge 11.

[0060] When the official in charge changes the attachment positions ofthe guides 21 of any cartridge 11 (11 a to 11 d), he or she performsentry operation for changing the guide attachment position informationfor the cartridge 11 (11 a to 11 d) for which the attachment positionsof the guides 21 are changed. Specifically, in the input section 3, theofficial in charge enters newly setup attachment positions of the guides21 (A, B, C, or D) for the cartridge 11 (11 a to 11 d) for which theattachment positions of the guides 21 are changed. The bill processingapparatus 1 changes the guide attachment position information based onthe entry in the input section 3.

[0061] When the bill processing apparatus 1 changes the guide attachmentposition information, it executes denomination setting processing ofsetting the denomination of bills stored in each of the cartridges 11 ato 11 d. FIG. 8 is a flowchart to show the denomination settingprocessing. The bill processing apparatus 1 detects the guide-to-guidedistance for each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d and detects thedenomination of bills fitted to storage using the detectedguide-to-guide distance as denomination detection processing (s1 to s8).The detection of the guide-to-guide distance at s1, s3, s5, and s7 isprocessing of reading the attachment positions of the guides 21 from theguide attachment position information shown in FIG. 7A and furtherreading the guide-to-guide distance from the guide-to-guide sizeinformation shown in FIG. 7B based on the read attachment positions ofthe guides 21. The denomination detection processing at s2, s4, s6, ands8 is processing of extracting the denomination of a bill having width Yin the range:

(X−20)mm<Y<(X−2)mm

[0062] relative to guide-to-guide distance X as the denomination of thebill fitted to storage.

[0063] The bill size for each denomination is stored in the main unit ofapparatus as bill size information (not shown). The bill sizeinformation is information originally stored to determine thedenomination of each bill in the validation section 6 and the billprocessing apparatus 1 of the embodiment uses the bill size informationto detect the denomination of bills fitted to storage in each cartridge11.

[0064] For the denomination of a bill having the width Y greater thanthe guide-to-guide distance X, the bill cannot be stored in thecartridge 11 and thus the denomination is not fitted to storage therein.For the denomination of a bill having the width Y extremely smaller thanthe guide-to-guide distance X (in this case, 20 mm or less), the billcan be stored in the cartridge 11, but is not stored in a neat stackstate in the cartridge 11 and thus the official in charge must align thebills taken from the cartridge 11; the work takes time and labor. If thebills are not stored in a neat stack state in the cartridge 11, the jamoccurrence probability at the paying-out time becomes high and thus thebills cannot be used as bills to be paid out. From these reasons, in theembodiment, the denomination of a bill having the width Y extremelysmaller than the guide-to-guide distance X (in this case, 20 mm or less)is a denomination not fitted to storage.

[0065] When the bill processing apparatus 1 detects the denomination ofbills fitted to storage for each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d, itdisplays a setting screen on the display section 4 to accept setting ofthe denomination of bills stored in each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d(s9). FIG. 9 shows the setting screen displayed on the display section 4at s9. The denominations of bills fitted to storage for each of thecartridges 11 a to 11 d are displayed on the setting screen. The figureindicates that the denominations of bills fitted to storage in thecartridge 11 a are 50-dollar and 100-dollar denominations, that thedenominations of bills fitted to storage in the cartridge 11 b are100-dollar and 500-dollar denominations, and that the denominations ofbills fitted to storage in the cartridges 11 c and 11 d are 500-dollarand 1000-dollar denominations.

[0066] A touch panel is provided on the display screen of the displaysection 4 for the official in charge to set and enter the denominationof bills stored for each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d on the screenshown in FIG. 9. For example, to set the denomination of bills stored inthe cartridge 11 a to the 50-dollar denomination, the official in chargepresses the top of the part indicating whether or not the 50-dollardenomination is fitted to storage in the cartridge 11 a on the displayscreen. Accordingly, the denomination of bills stored in the cartridge11 a can be set to the 50-dollar denomination.

[0067] When the denomination of bills not fitted to storage is enteredas the denomination of bills stored in the cartridge 11, specificallywhen the official in charge presses a part where [0] is not displayed onthe display screen of the display section 4, the bill processingapparatus 1 invalidates the entry. Thus the denomination of bills notfitted to storage in each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d is not set.

[0068] When the bill processing apparatus 1 accepts entry of setting thedenomination of bills stored in each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d, itupdates stored bill denomination information based on the setting entryand terminates the processing (s10 and s11).

[0069] Since the bill processing apparatus 1 of the embodiment thusenables the official in charge to easily change the denomination ofbills stored for each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d, work for changingthe denomination of bills stored for each cartridge 11 with change inthe operating environment of the main unit of apparatus or the like canbe saved. The size of a bill fitted to storage in each of the cartridges11 a to 11 d can be changed simply by changing the attachment positionsof the guides 21 to the corresponding one of the cartridge 11 a to 11 d,so that a new cartridge need not be purchased with the change. Moreover,each of the cartridges 1 a to 11 d is adjusted to the size matching thesize of a bill to be stored by changing the attachment positions of theguides 21 and thus the bills are stored in a neat stack state in each ofthe cartridges 11 a to 11 d. Therefore, if the bills are used as billsto be paid out, the jam occurrence probability when the bills are paidout from the cartridge 11 a to 11 d can be sufficiently suppressed andthe problem of degrading the reliability of the main unit of apparatusdoes not occur.

[0070] In the description of the embodiment, the case where thedenomination of bills stored in each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d isset on the touch panel (input section 3) provided on the display section4 is taken as an example; however, the denomination can also be set onthe input unit 10 connected to the I/F section 7.

[0071] In the description of the embodiment, the case where thedenomination of bills stored in the cartridge (11 a to 11 d) is changedis taken as an example; however, for example, the apparatus used so farfor handling dollar bills can be changed to a processing apparatus forany other currency, such as yen bills. In this case, the processingprogram for checking bills needs to be changed so that the validationsection 6 can check new currency (bills).

[0072] Therefore, the apparatus can deal with the currency of anydesired country simply by changing the processing program for checkingbills in the validation section 6 without changing the configuration ofthe main unit of apparatus, so that the advantage of decreasing costs ofthe main unit of apparatus can also be provided.

[0073] In the embodiment, the official in charge enters the attachmentpositions of the guides 21 for each of the cartridges 11 a to 11 d, butreflection-type photosensors 30 maybe provided, for example, as shown inFIG. 10, so that the attachment positions of the guides 21 can bedetected automatically. In doing so, the entry operation involved inchanging the guide attachment position information when the attachmentpositions of the guides 21 are changed becomes unnecessary and an entrymistake in the entry operation can also be prevented.

[0074] The attachment positions of the guides 21 in the cartridge 11 maybe adjusted with a motor. In doing so, work of removing the screws 22,etc., becomes unnecessary in the changing work of the attachmentpositions of the guides 21 in the cartridge 11, so that the work can beconducted still more easily.

[0075] Further, the bill processing apparatus of the embodiment can beapplied not only to an automatic telling machine, an exchange machine,etc., used in banks, etc., but also to any other type of bill processingapparatus. The medium processing apparatus according to the inventioncan also be applied to an apparatus for processing media other thanbills.

[0076] As described above, according to the invention, the type of mediato be stored for each of the cartridges is simply entered in the inputsection, whereby the type of media to be stored in each of thecartridges can be set, so that change work can be facilitated when thetype of media to be stored for each of the cartridges is changed withchange in the operating environment of the main unit of apparatus, etc.

[0077] The size of a medium fitted to storage can be changed simply bychanging the attachment positions of the guides to the cartridge, sothat a new cartridge need not be purchased with the change and the costtaken for the change can also be reduced.

What is claimed is:
 1. A medium processing apparatus comprising: aplurality of cartridges for storing media; a storage section for storingsize determination information to determine a size of a medium fitted tostorage in each of said plurality of cartridges and medium sizeinformation indicating the size of the medium for each type of medium;an output section for outputting a sort result of sorting into a mediumof the type fitted to storage and a medium of the type not fitted tostorage in each of said plurality of cartridges using the sizedetermination information and the medium size information for each ofsaid plurality of cartridges; an input section for entering the type ofmedium to be stored for each of said plurality of cartridges; and acontrol section for setting the type of medium to be stored for each ofsaid plurality of cartridges based on the entry in said input section.2. The medium processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein saidoutput section has a display section for displaying the sort result. 3.The medium processing apparatus as claimed in claim 2, where in saidinput section is a touch panel placed on a display screen of the displaysection.
 4. The medium processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1,wherein when a medium of the type not fitted to storage for any of saidplurality of cartridges is entered in said input section, said controlsection has a function of invalidating the entry.
 5. The mediumprocessing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of saidplurality of cartridges comprises movable guides for regulating astorage area of media, wherein the size determination informationcontains information indicating positions of the guides in each of saidplurality of cartridges.
 6. The medium processing apparatus as claimedin claim 5, wherein said input section has a function of entering theinformation indicating the positions of the guides.
 7. The mediumprocessing apparatus as claimed in claim 5, further comprising: a guideposition detection section for detecting the positions of the guides. 8.The medium processing apparatus as claimed in claim 5, furthercomprising: a determination section for determining, as the medium ofthe type fitted to storage, a medium which satisfies the followingequation: (X−20)mm<Y<(X−2)mm wherein Y is a width of the bill; and X isa distance between guides of the cartridge.
 9. The medium processingapparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said cartridge has a pluralityof pairs of positioning openings for determining an attachment positionof the guide, and said guide has plurality of pairs of projectionsfitted into the positioning openings.
 10. A bill processing apparatuscomprising: a plurality of cartridges for storing bills; a storagesection for storing size determination information to determine a sizeof a bill fitted to storage in each of said plurality of cartridges andbill size information indicating the size of the bill for each type ofbill; an output section for outputting a sort result of sorting into abill of the type fitted to storage and a bill of the type not fitted tostorage in each of said plurality of cartridges using the sizedetermination information and the bill size information for each of saidplurality of cartridges; an input section for entering the type of billto be stored for each of said plurality of cartridges; and a controlsection for setting the type of bill to be stored for each of saidplurality of cartridges based on the entry in said input section.